"The main internationally recognized exception was India adding some territories, such as the Portuguese colony of Goa in 1962 and formerly independent Sikkim in 1975."
Fun Sikkim fact(?): for a few summers in the 1970s my family would go to White Grass Ranch in Jackson Hole for a week on the way to visit my grandparents in Colorado, and …
"The main internationally recognized exception was India adding some territories, such as the Portuguese colony of Goa in 1962 and formerly independent Sikkim in 1975."
Fun Sikkim fact(?): for a few summers in the 1970s my family would go to White Grass Ranch in Jackson Hole for a week on the way to visit my grandparents in Colorado, and at this dude ranch there was an alcoholic-seeming older man called Cookey, who ran rafting trips on the Snake River etc. My mother told me that this guy was the father of Hope Cooke, the last queen of Sikkim or whatever the title was. When she told me about it I found the whole idea impossibly glamorous, but my mother wasn't a fabulist, and it's highly possible that it was actually true...
Anyway, apparently Hope Cooke is still with us as I just learned from Wikipedia, where her entry is well worth a look. Among other things turns out she was married for a while in the 1980s to Mike Wallace–the historian of New York and author of Gotham, not the other one. I sat next to him at a dinner party in NYC twenty-some years ago: a very pleasant and unsurprisingly interesting guy. I wish I'd known about the Hope Cooke business then so I could have asked him about Cookey.
"The main internationally recognized exception was India adding some territories, such as the Portuguese colony of Goa in 1962 and formerly independent Sikkim in 1975."
Fun Sikkim fact(?): for a few summers in the 1970s my family would go to White Grass Ranch in Jackson Hole for a week on the way to visit my grandparents in Colorado, and at this dude ranch there was an alcoholic-seeming older man called Cookey, who ran rafting trips on the Snake River etc. My mother told me that this guy was the father of Hope Cooke, the last queen of Sikkim or whatever the title was. When she told me about it I found the whole idea impossibly glamorous, but my mother wasn't a fabulist, and it's highly possible that it was actually true...
Anyway, apparently Hope Cooke is still with us as I just learned from Wikipedia, where her entry is well worth a look. Among other things turns out she was married for a while in the 1980s to Mike Wallace–the historian of New York and author of Gotham, not the other one. I sat next to him at a dinner party in NYC twenty-some years ago: a very pleasant and unsurprisingly interesting guy. I wish I'd known about the Hope Cooke business then so I could have asked him about Cookey.